CES 2014 is just around the bend. Anton D. Nagy, Michael Fisher and yours truly will be in attendance, and coverage will begin shortly after we land in Las Vegas Sunday afternoon. This particular show has been growing in size and attendance almost every year since its induction in 1967. But for us mobile guys, the show has become far more sparse with juicy details and big product announcements. It's far too easy for a major device to get lost in the mass of new announcements at a show like CES. As such, companies like Motorola, HTC, Samsung, and have taken to one-off events to announce ...

It's no secret that Samsung is working on a 64-bit chip for its mobile devices; Apple introduced its own with the A7 in the iPhone 5S, we just saw Qualcomm follow-through with its own 64-bit Snapdragon 410, and now we've been expecting Samsung to unveil a 64-bit Exynos of its own. While this so-called Exynos 6 is likely still in the works, we're now hearing about a different branch Samsung's SoC ambitions could end up taking in 2014, with rumors about a new in-house-designed Exynos S chip. Whereas the Exynos 6 would continue to use stock cores designed by ARM, just as past Exynos models ...